Boletin Mexicano de Derecho Comparado
Volume 18, Issue 152, 2018, Pages 707-739

Child and adolescent asylum seekers in mexico: A critique of the defects surrounding the procedure for recognizing refugee status [Niños, niñas y adolescentes solicitantes de asilo en méxico: una crítica a los defectos del procedimiento para el reconocimiento de la condición de refugiado] (Article) (Open Access)

Velázquez E.O.*
  • a Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas de la UNAM, Mexico

Abstract

This article has two objectives. On the one hand, to systematize and, in this way, highlight the legal procedure that children and adolescents (CAs) have to face when they decide to seek asylum in Mexico, given the opacity and the difficulties that are inherent in said process. And, on the other hand, identify and analyze the most obvious obstacles that the specific legal form of this procedure creates in its daily practice so as to illuminate, from a critical perspective, the actual situation of the right of children/( CAs) to seek and receive asylum in Mexico.To this end, first, this article studies the procedure that must be followed to seek and receive asylum in Mexico; second, it examines the practical and legal obstacles faced by children and adolescents who initiate this tortuous procedure. © 2018 Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. All rights reserved.

Author Keywords

Asylum Children human rights Mexico Due Process

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Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85058797175&doi=10.22201%2fiij.24484873e.2018.152.12923&partnerID=40&md5=ac3881cf8c611c442f6888d215e68242

DOI: 10.22201/iij.24484873e.2018.152.12923
ISSN: 00418633
Original Language: Spanish